JD750 Loc: SoCal

OMG you are correct. I have always assumed he lived here on the west coast but it’s funny how similar the culture of 2 coasts can be. I stand (sit) corrected and somewhat chagrined, and I thank you.

I will correct my statement to “A very American centric point of view”.

Shutterbug57

And yet they still make & sell the F6 & FM10.

Shutterbug57

Even if all M43 and DSLR production along with related products geared for those formats (lenses specifically) stopped this afternoon, the in place inventory of gear would continue to soldier on for years. In my active body inventory, I have, and use the following out of production, unsupported bodies:

Mamiya M645 ca 1975 with 50mm, 80mm & 150mm lenses
Nikon N90s ca late 1980s with all my Nikon lenses, but G lenses only work in shutter and program mode
Nikon F100 ca 1990s with all my Nikon lenses, even works with G lenses, but VR won’t work.
Nikon D70s ca 2002 same as F100
Nikon D200 ca 2006 same as F100

The only new tech bodies I have are my Nikon D500, Fuji X-T2 and Interpid 4x5 (although the lenses are vintage). This afternoon, I am planning to put a roll of Ektar through the M645 to capture fall colors, then shoot a roll of Tri-X with it with my daughter as we are taking a B&W class together. She is 25, an accomplished digital photographer, but had never shot film. She wanted to take a B&W class with film and darkroom and asked me to join her.

I set her up with my N90s & 50mm f/1.8 AF-D lens then found out the teacher wants everyone using 35mm, so, I scored a mint F100 body with grip off the ‘bay for me. I had been eyeing one because the N90s was my only SLR body that would not back button focus. It’s a great camera, but no BBF was driving me nuts. Assuming my daughter likes film and the N90s, it will be hers.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

No, usually not. But if I need a 28mm equivalent angle of view with deep DOF, and it’s all I have with me, and the light is good...

I prefer to do *intentional* photography with my GH4. I’m just contesting the idea that we categorically need more than 12MP to make a 16x20.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

There’s where we agree Bill - 12 MPixels is perfectly adequate to produce a decent 16x20, viewed at a normal distance, as long as they’re “low noise” pixels 😎

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Of course.

Actually, a lot of the training documentation and video I used to do with an SLR (in the 1980s) or a dSLR (2005 – 2012) can be done with a smartphone. It does a pretty darned good job in normal office/factory lighting, if you have a phone holder mounted on a tripod. The results are at least as good as Ektachrome 400, and way better than 3/4U or VHS video. Bits beat atoms for media production any day of the week, too!

We really are spoiled with all the technology we have. I know you cover high school sports with full frame gear. I did it with Tri-X film pushed in Acufine to E.I. 1280, back in the '70s. The keeper rate was pretty low! I used to splice 1/4" audio tape to edit interviews. Garage band on an iPhone or Mac makes child's play of it. It's as powerful as a 1970s professional recording studio.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

No question that Digital has certainly changed recording in many media. I used to push TriX to 1600 (and live with the grain), and now I shoot indoors at 12,800 all the time. I do admit though, that I like the look of B&W printed on silver emulsions, hence the reason I still shoot some film.

Regarding recording Audio, I had a high end production audio facility as a customer not far from you in Burlington, NC for many years. Richard Clark was always pushing the envelope of audio technology and thought nothing of purchasing a 15K$ Tektronix spectrum analyzer. When I started with him in the mid-late 70s, he was mastering on a dBx encoded 15 IPS Ampex wide tape machine, and over the years I knew him, they moved to a Sony Digital system that recorded 14-bit digitized audio on video tape.